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Billy Wilder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Writer: Some Like It Hot. Originally planning to become a lawyer, Billy Wilder abandoned that career... Visit IMDb for Photos, Filmography, Discussions, Bio, News, Awards, Agent, Fan Sites. ... Billy Wilder More at IMDbPro »...
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Billy Wilder on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more... ... Biography for; Billy Wilder More at IMDbPro » ... Billy Wilder products...
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From the late 1930s to the early 1960s, Billy Wilder dominated Hollywood’s Golden Age. With over fifty films and six Academy Awards to his credit, he is one of Hollywood’s all-time greatest directors, producers and screenwriters.
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Writer turned director turned producer Billy Wilder contributed to a plethora of highly successful films of varying genres over the course of his 50+ year Hollywood film career, receiving an incredible eight Academy Award nominations as Best Director (second only to William Wyler who had twelve).
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Wilder, Billy, 1906–2002, American film director, producer, and writer, b. Sucha, Galicia (now Poland) as Samuel Wilder. ... More on Billy Wilder from Infoplease: ... Billy Wilder - Biography of Billy Wilder, Director of Sunset Boulevard and Some Like It Hot...
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"Billy Wilder: Broadcast to Kuala Lampur," with Vanessa Brown, in Action (Los Angeles), November/December 1970. ... "Saul Bass and Billy Wilder: in Conversation," with Pat Kirkham, in Sight and Sound (London), June 1995.
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The presentation of the story itself, by Wilder and his co-scriptwriter Wendell Mayes, is less happily organised, however. Lindbergh is not only the central figure throughout, but during the latter half the narrative is, of necessity, restricted to one man, a plane and the limitless ocean below.
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News about Billy Wilder. Commentary and archival information about Billy Wilder from The New York Times. ... Almost all the 25 films Billy Wilder made as a writer-director displayed his slashing wit and stinging social satire. Yet no other major filmmaker slipped so easily into so many genres.
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Sunset Boulevard - Starring William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark - Director(s) Billy Wilder - Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom. ... Director(s) Billy Wilder...
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